The Joyful Johnsons

This week's chapter is subtitled Scheduling.  (In case you are just popping in, we are reading Better Than Before  by Gretchen Rubin and...

After a long break from school (since December 13!), we began our second semester today. I had planned to begin the day after we arrived hom...

Our family went to Disney World January 10-17. In fact, we left exactly at 12:00 AM on January 10 (Monday night/Tuesday morning). We followe...

In our Book Club we are reading  Better Than Before  by Gretchen Rubin. This week's chapter is titled, "We Manage What We Monitor:...

First of all, THANK YOU! to all of you who responded to me via Facebook, Facebook Messenger, by commenting on my blog, or texting me. I appr...

Yesterday Olivia, Leah, and I spent the day in Memphis at three different bridal stores looking for Olivia a wedding dress. Olivia has a pic...

How is your new year going? Have you set any goals? Are you keeping them so far? I decided how I was going to cover my gospels reading eac...

Happy New Year! I spent several hours yesterday making plans for 2017 and transferring information to my new Erin Condren planner. (Love t...

I'm here! Apparently I am not going to get to blogging about Better Than Before  until after Christmas. Or even after that!  (But I wi...

Hello! I hope your Thanksgiving went well. I thoroughly enjoyed having Olivia and Julie home along with Brian and Ellie. We filled each day...

I am finally posting about this chapter! After my run yesterday (which was so. cold.) I spent the rest of the day cleaning my entire house, ...

Hello! I know I have not posted yet about our book, Better Than Before . I have not forgotten!  I am running around like a chicken with my ...

Don't forget that tomorrow we will be discussing the following chapter in Better Than Before  by Gretchen Rubin: "Self-Knowledge: ...

We are still homeschooling. With all the traveling we have done this fall (XC meets for Clay and Leah, two hours away on most Tuesdays, an...

Did you read the introduction? ( Better Than Before  by Gretchen Rubin) I must admit that I really don't have any idea how to conduct ...

Last year Leanna, Lynn, Lesley, and I started what we hoped would be an annual November tradition. We spent an entire day Christmas shopping...

Today's book club assignment was to just secure your copy of the book we will be discussing, Better Than Before  by Gretchen Rubin. Ha...

I recently read that in order to meet future goals, you have to begin making steps in order to achieve them right now. For example, if you w...

Hail State! Lynn, Leanna, Leigh, and I (the only one without an "L" name!) and our families had the best time at the MSU/Texas A...

Today as I was grabbing my gym bag to take to my CrossFit class, I was reminded of when I had babies and toddlers and always had a diaper ba...

I began keeping a spiral bound Christmas notebook in 2001. In 2007 I switched to a 3 ring binder with the following dividers: Gifts: Th...

Well today is the first day of November!  Have you thought about what you would like to challenge yourself to accomplish for the next 30 day...

I have decided to do the book club!  I think it will be fun.  I plan to post about the first book in our book club, Better Than Before  by G...

Last week as I was entering my local Sam's Club, the greeter asked me if I would like to try the new app, Scan and Go. As usual when I a...

The wedding planning is in full swing!  I have finally assembled my Wedding Planning Binder complete with 10 tabs. I made this checklist, p...

Toward the end of my Whole 30, I realized the principle of doing something for only 30 days  could be applied to so many things. The possibi...